What can a Maker Salvage from Old Computer Parts?

Hello there and welcome to my video. In today's video, I'll be going over what I, as a maker/hobbyist, like to salvage from old, dead computer parts that are going to be sold off as scrap to a recycler.

Music, in order:
Beyond - Patrick Patrikios
Papov - Yung Logos
Sunny Days - Anno Domini Beats

[kostas]

DVD and power supply enclosures can be used as project boxes, in addition to the top and side aluminium panels of the case. Lots of different colored wires in the power supply are always useful and easy to cut off, chunky 2w resistors and odd value Zener diodes at the power supply board can be handy, and I always save the special insulating screws that attach the components to the heatsinks.

[bryans]

I have a big box full of parts I've salvaged from dead PCs but I've never gone as far as pulling things apart to save internal components. Frankly, I wouldn't know what they were good for a week later. Case fans and optical drives, especially the slim type, have really come in handy.

[georgeandrews]

I flip the boards over and use a heat gun to de-solder the parts as it heats them less.

[MSandOnly]

Want to say this, your my favorite youtuber, and thanks for another amazing video! Nice Finds! Definitely Re-useable

[jacobnamod]

great video, glad i learned something this morning

[guaiqueritech]

Despite not having your background in electronics, I’ve also disassembled my fair share of components 😅 I’ve got boxes of those switches, cooling fans, power sockets and small motors… they eventually DO come in handy

5:27 I’d salvage the heatsink bracket, as I’ve dealt with some of these old motherboards with a broken tab on the bracket, which prevents the heatsink from firmly securing to the CPU, requiring fastening it with cable ties 😂

Great video

[cantfindagoodchannelname]

V v interested in the worm gear motor video, pleaase make one!!

[GlishaSo]

Haha, I did all that you said at the start of the video every thing but never salvaged anything here to see what's up " :)

[adinnugroho]

ODD was one of my fave hardware ever exist. Well, seeing you disassemble that. I'm fine not mad or anything else

Right now, it only useful for legacy things. Like installing software for printer, etc. Even for entertainment

[MinhNguyen-uvgd]

I prefer to keep the motherboard intact and keep it as a decor, I had a psu at home and I disaasembled it, cut all the wires, bought some new female headers and pins and make them into new extended cables

[_Amilio_]

I scrapped a sattellite decoder recently and got a 2TB hard drive, a power supply and a fan which i use for soldering extraction now. Score.

[adinnugroho]

I had older Motherboard but mine is MSI for Intel 775. Seeing that Asus Motherboard, this one just looks premium for the time

I was kinda 👎 as it lacks of onboard VGA. But at that time, users using dGPU whether it was Nvidia or ATI Radeon (before become AMD Radeon)

[aaronwoodcock]

If you have an office prebuilt power supply, and it has enough wattage for a higher gpu, they make a Sata Power to PCIE 8-pin adapter. It's a way to save money, and you wont have to purchase a whole other power supply.

[MrAppleimac]

Could I ask you in the ikea unit you have components in orange boxes where did you get those from?

[simonlenhard]

The small lineal motor is actualy usual stepper motor

[mrkemblegilstrap]

Sorry Bro, but
We're funny. You're young, but like old stuff and I'm an old geezer and I'm only interested in the newer stuff. Ah well, yin and yang.